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• Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.

  Horace

  Guilt, Pale, Clear

  "Epistles", I. 1. 60, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 130-31, 1922.

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• To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Song, Should Have, Victory

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.7

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• The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Men, Poor

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• I go to bed with a clear conscience. I sleep great. I know I did my best.

  Alistair Overeem

  Sleep, Ufc, Mma

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• All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.

  Hosea Ballou

  Possession, Clear, Conscience

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• One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows of the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain.

  George Sand

  Happiness, Dream, Simple

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• What I know for sure is that it's only when you make the process your goal that the big dream can follow. That doesn't necessarily mean your process will necessarily lead you to wealth or fame. In fact, your dream may have nothing to do with tangible prosperity and everything to do with creating a life filled with joy, one with no regrets and a clear conscience. I've learned that wealth is a tool that gives you choices, but it can't compensate for a life not fully lived and it certainly can't create a sense of peace within you.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Dream, Regret, Mean

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• Objectification is a critical reason why an abuser tends to get worse over time. As his conscience adapts to one level of cruelty-he builds to the next. By depersonalizing his partner, the abuser protects himself from the natural human emotions of guilt and empathy, so that he can sleep at night with a clear conscience. He distances himself so far from her humanity that her feelings no longer count, or simply cease to exist.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Distance, Sleep, Night

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• A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Life, Men, Lasts

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• The first and indispensable requisite of happiness is a clear conscience.

  Edward Gibbon

  Happiness, Firsts, Clear

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with notes by Milman and Guizot. Ed. by W. Smith”, p.127

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• It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.

  Chris Kyle

  Jobs, Regret, War

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Living life with a clear conscience is the fruit of a repentant heart and new life through Jesus Christ.

  Brian Houston

  Jesus, Live Life, Heart

  Twitter post from Feb 27, 2015

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• Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement.

  Grover Cleveland

  Loyalty, Achievement, Community

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• Joe Paterno left this world with a clear conscience.

  Jay Paterno

  World, Clear, Left

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• A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

  Alexander Cockburn

  War, Self, Deception

  New Statesman and Society (Magazine), February 8, 1991.

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• Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps one's conscience both clear and at ease.

  Criss Jami

  Father, Son, Self

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.70, Criss Jami

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• A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Memories, Results, Clear

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• The most identifiable trait of Anglo-Saxons is that we always mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

  Argus Hamilton

  Memories, Mistake, Short Memory

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• If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Deceit, Loyal, Want

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.603, Stanford University Press

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• A stout heart, a clear conscience, and never despair.

  John Quincy Adams

  Heart, Despair, Stout

  "The works of Charles Sumner". Book by Charles Sumner, 1870.

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• But there is no doubt that to attempt a novel of ideas is to give oneself a handicap: the parochialism of our culture is intense. For instance, decade after decade bright young men and women emerge from their universities able to say proudly: 'Of course I know nothing about German literature.' It is the mode. The Victorians knew everything about German literature, but were able with a clear conscience not to know much about the French.

  Doris Lessing

  Men, Ideas, Giving

  Doris May Lessing (1989). “The Doris Lessing Reader”, Jonathan Cape

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• My legal wife is to me dead; the only ecclesiastical authority I recognise pronounces me free; the attacks and threats of men do not disturb me. I am acting according to a clear conscience, and am doing hurt to no man. For my conduct, I will answer to my maker.

  William the Silent

  Hurt, Men, Wife

  "William the Silent". Book by Frederic Harrison, p. 176, 1897.

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• I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Believe, Food, Important

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• There is nothing in the world that could make me turn from the law. With a clear conscience, I am prepared to answer for each and every one of my political and administrative orders and actions, and to do so before the court of public opinion.

  Djemal Pasha

  Order, Law, Political

  "A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility". Book by by Taner Akçam, Paul Bessemer, p. 246, 2006.

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• Regardless of nationality, all men are brothers. God is "our Father who art in heaven." The commandment "Thou shalt not kill" is unconditional and inexorable. ... The lowly Nazarene taught us the doctrine of non-resistance, and so convinced was he of the soundness of that doctrine that he sealed his belief with death on the cross. ... When human law conflicts with Divine law, my duty is clear. Conscience, my infallible guide, impels me to tell you that prison, death, or both, are infinitely preferable to joining any branch of the Army.

  Ben Salmon

  Brother, Art, Father

  "Letter To President Wilson" by Ben Salmon, June 5, 1917.

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